Brossa Dada : an endless landscape of action
15th international encounter of action poetry and performance
Brossa Dada : an endless landscape of action
Poster: “Illusional Delusion”. Concept and action: NON GRATA.
Photo: Joan Casellas-Arxiu Aire.
Everything finishes and everything begins again and we have arrived up to here, it is our END . The day that the smoke of Marcel Duchamp’s cigar mixed with the steam of the Caula, our adventure was spawned. Many achievements and artistic inventions animate this hot border with the gift of perpetual movement…
Joan Brossa, Catalan readymade artist , was born a hundred years ago the “day” in which Duchamp made two monumental claptraps: to paint moustaches to the Gioconda ensuring that “she has a hot ass” and “sell” to a collector in New York 50cc of Paris air. We sell air from the Caula and undisciplined approach our teachers: Duchamp and Elsa von Freitag Loringhoven, Man Ray, Mina Loy, Dalí, Maruja Mallo and for the last meeting Joan Brossa in the year of his centenary.
Under the influence of Dada, Brossa invented the square carriage wheel, the post theatre and a seven sided dice and another one rounded, even more difficult; like Duchamp himself, without making a single performance, he became master of it and here we harbor a secret: the art of action is not a kinetic or futuristic question, nor even less realistic, but real if it has been 5,475 days of action by more than 250 artists from around the world. With these last artists the moustachioed Gioconda will continue throwing the seven sided dice; we will play this last game with joy as we imagine the new spaces of this landscape of endless action. A door that closes and opens at the same time or a paradoxical square wheel of the Catalan Republic Carriage that suddenly slides like a sleigh on the light that has been given to us…
News
Schedule2019
Saturday 31 August
Opening of the exhibition El paisatge documental 2018
Film Els deixebles de Marcel Duchamp by Josep Pérez
Exhibition of the photos by Denys Blacker
Friday 13 September
V Trobada d’Espais de Creació i Producció de Catalunya
Encounter organised by Xarxaprod (www.xarxaprod.cat), hosted by La Muga Caula
Opening of the 15th edition of La Muga Caula
Presentations and snacks
Opening Actions
Theodor di Ricco
Rosa Grau
Diner in charge of Nyamnyam
BE brossia (Breu i Espontani dedicated to Joan Brossa)
Master of ceremonies: Rolls Rolf Langhans
Saturday 14 September
Consecutive Actions
Hobo from the group NON GRATA
Littel Tom from the group NON GRATA
Alicia Cayuela
Yannos Majestikos
Lunch in charge of Nyamnyam
Consecutive Actions
Quim Pujol
David Montosa
Silvia Antolín
Consecutive Actions
Paco Justícia
Anonymus Boh from the group NON GRATA
Taje Devilgril from the group NON GRATA
Diner in charge of Nyamnyam
Book Launch Galeries by Marte R. Sobrecuesta
Performative presentation by Marta R. Sobrecuesta
Concert
Els Delai (catalan rumba)
Sunday 15 September
Book Launches
Diver univers. Non Grata (various authors)
Presented by Taje Tros
Ritos de Paso (various authors)
Presented by Nieves Correa
Arte de acción y autoayuda, by Yolanda Perez Herrera
Presented by Yolanda Perez Herreras
De la nube al papel. 136 mini video performances. Tres años on line, by Isabel León.
Presented by Isabel León.
Simultaneous Durational Actions
by all the Artists
Paella germanor
in charge of Juanjo Rodríguez
Cake of the 15 years
Pastís mandala in charge of the poet-baker Àngel Rodríguez
Marcel Duchamp’s Visit
as a messenger of surprising news!
Group Photo
with Marcel Duchamp and all the artists, volunteers and La Muga Caula’s team. Photo in charge of Paco Justicia
Pyrotechnic party and closing ceremony of the 15th and last Muga Caula
Monday 16 September
Performance Workshops
for teenagers and children with Ruben Barroso